Foreign Correspondents: Too Much Crusading

Writing with the authority of long service as a foreign correspondent
for the New York Herald Tribune and The New Yorker magazine,
Christopher Rand made no secret of his disapproval of the performance
of his colleagues. While watching the overseas press corps cover a
war in Asia, Rand became convinced that "the crusading or bellicose
tradition of U.S. journalism goes badly with foreign reporting." On their
foreign beat, he wrote, the crusaders seemed "more eager to put on
an act than to right wrongs. Or perhaps they had fallen into mere hostility
for...